Etowah’s Southside Baptist adopts area father, daughter

September 1, 2011

Alan Broome was living and ministering in Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, so he’s no stranger to mobilizing teams to help with cleanup

Pilgrim Rest Baptist withstands tornado, pastors’ accident

September 1, 2011

Rolling hills, rivers and lush green pastures are familiar sights in rural Cherokee County in northeast Alabama. Small communities line the two-lane highways, and the

SBTC gives $1M in reserve funds to Lottie Moon

August 25, 2011

GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention’s (SBTC) Executive Board has granted $1 million from reserve funds to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

First Priority Greater Birmingham marks 20 years

August 25, 2011

We’ve watched [First Priority] grow from a dream inside of us … to a plan that was launched … to a very reproducible strategy that

Blume challenges teen girls to consider missions heritage

August 25, 2011

More than 160 Alabamians were among the nearly 2,350 girls in grades 7–12 and their leaders, along with some collegiate young women, who gathered for

Rankin to lead center for Muslim studies at S.C. school

August 25, 2011

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jerry Rankin, retired president of the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention, has agreed to direct the Zwemer Center

Chinese baby corpses reportedly cannibalized for ‘stamina’ pills

August 25, 2011

Chinese pharmaceutical companies are grinding up dead babies into stamina-enhancing pills, according to a South Korean television network. A documentary team from SBS TV, formerly